One More Saturday Night

Well, we are settling in at the apartment, listening to the sounds of the Beach Boys drift up from this evening's concert at the Hatch Shell. Saturdays are kind of frustrating as we all miss Tim a lot and we can only get about 3 - 4 hours with him before it's off to bed. But a good few hours it was. He was amazing tonight, laughing and joking with his sister, planning our big outings tomorrow and next weekend. He is ready to roll!

Part of the reason for his excellent mood may have been the visitors he had today. Max Steiner, his recruiter from UTI came by to visit and brought several gifts for Tim - an official service jacket, two hats, a black hoodie, two tees (including one Audi Technology logo'd), a service manual text book to get started with and a beautiful hardcover Audi History book that was sent up by the head of the Audi School in Phoenix. After that, the hardware Baldwins and Stefan Serkin showed what true friends they are by braving the off-Cape Saturday traffic to visit Tim on their way home from vacation. The note we found from Lisa, Stefan and Corey said it all:

He was truly pumped by the time we had arrived.

This trip was a little different for us - we took Tim's Audi as that is how he'd like to ride home next week, and we must practice. The car - a 1990 A8 still rides smoothly, so we didn't mind.

We briefly reviewed the mail, which included a nice postcard from Rev. Allison who was spending time in Hershey, PA. And then we unveiled IT, the special gift from Regina and the people of our community:

This huge poster/collage came along with an album of hand written notes from each person captured on film. Tim couldn't find the words beyond "awesome" to describe how he felt, but I think you can see it in his eyes.

So, it's off to bed - tomorrow will be a long day. Tyler and Matt are dropping by at 8AM on their way to Maine. We're planning to visit the Museum of Science for most of the afternoon. We heard the Zucchini Festival was a real success. In fact, I could've sworn I saw some fireworks going off over the Citgo Sign. Good night!